[kwlug-disc] SONiC is not a hedgehog

[Bob Jonkman]

The world as we know it has ended:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/09/microsoft_sonic_debian/

> Put down your coffee gently. Microsoft has today released a homegrown
> open-source operating system, based on Debian GNU/Linux, that runs on
> network switches.
> 
> The software is dubbed SONiC, aka Software for Open Networking in the
> Cloud. It's a toolkit of code and kernel patches to bend switch
> hardware to your will, so you can dictate how it works and what it
> can do, rather than relying on proprietary firmware from a
> traditional networking vendor.

[...]

> Today's news follows Microsoft's other bombshell this week: a port of
> SQL Server for Linux, due out in 2017. This is all extremely 
> surprising given the Windows giant was hell bent on destroying Linux
>  until very recently.

[...]

> Redmond fans insist their favorite IT giant has turned a new leaf, 
> that it no longer likens open-source to cancer and communism, and 
> that it now truly loves Linux. Those of us who found themselves on 
> the business end of Microsoft in the 1990s will be thinking of the 
> old words from a nearly forgotten age. Embrace. Extend... ®



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